"You can't mess with people's heads, that's for sure. But that's what music's all about, messing with people's heads."

Jimi Hendrix

Born this day in 1942, American guitarist Jimi Hendrix altered the course of popular music in his brief career through his innovative playing of the electric guitar and his standing as a symbol of the 1960s youth movement.

1895: Nobel Prizes establishedThrough the will drawn up by Alfred Bernhard Nobelthe Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist who invented dynamite and other, more powerful explosivesthe Nobel Prizes were established on this day in 1895.